Klippoklondike:I'd rather have served on a cool sounding named carrier like an Enterprise than the John C. Stennis. Seriously, does anybody even know who that guy is who wasn't on that ship?

I do. Stennis once played in a high-stakes poker game against Admiral Nimitz. They went all in, and Stennis won. Nimitz had to sign over the title to his aircraft character, which was promptly renamed to reflect the new owner. Carl S. Vinson and Dwight D. Eisenhower were witnesses.

An expert marketer could not have come up with a better name for US Navy Ship than Enterprise. It's the equivalent of having HMS Stiff Upper Lip or HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) Quielty Pragmatic.